When Members of Congress Gather Information About the Bureaucracy by Holding

question 79

Multiple Choice

When members of Congress gather information about the bureaucracy by holding hearings and questioning bureaucrats, they are engaged in ________.

• A) oversight
• B) stacking the deck
• C) policing
• D) investigating

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Definitions:

Strict Preference

An economic term indicating a consumer's stronger liking for one option over another, with no indifference between the two.

Convex Preferences

In consumer theory, a situation where the consumer prefers an average of two goods or bundles to either one of the extremes, indicating a desire for diversified choices.

Midterm Examinations

Exams given roughly halfway through an academic term to assess students' understanding of the course material.

Centered

In statistics, adjusting data values by subtracting the mean of the data set from each value to have an average of zero.